It sounds like the kind of legislation that should easily breeze through a statehouse, even in these politically divided times: a resolution denouncing white nationalists and neo-Nazis.
It didn’t even make it out of committee.
The resolution was written by Democratic state Rep. John Ray Clemmons. It doesn’t name any particular group. It calls on law enforcement to go after white nationalists and Neo-Nazi groups with the same “fervor” as other forms of terrorism.
“[W]e urge law enforcement to recognize these white nationalist and neo-Nazi groups as terrorist organizations and to pursue the criminal elements of these domestic terrorist organizations in the same manner and with the same fervor used to protect the United States from other manifestations of terrorism.”
But when it came up Wednesday before the House State Government Subcommittee, it died a quick death. How quick? About 36 seconds.
As Clemmons started to talk about the bill, the sole Democrat on the five-member committee motioned to have it discussed.
No one on the committee spoke up. The committee chair, Republican state Rep. Bill Sanderson, then gaveled the resolution dead.
And with that the committee moved on to the next item on its agenda.
Because the resolution didn’t get a second motion to proceed, it means it won’t make it to a vote by the full legislature.
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SOURCE: CNN, Doug Criss
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